Reparations advocates are insisting that the federal government provide direct cash payments to Black descendants of American slavery, warning that broadening the eligibility scope risks diluting the movement amid growing resistance from conservatives and the Trump administration."Cash payments — that’s just a little solution to it, but it’s a big solution because without cash payments, there’s no reparations," Rev.Phyllis Coachman, a supporter of the U.S.
Freedmen Project, told Fox News Digital."[Slavery] ended in 1865, but so many other things happened after that," Coachman added."After slavery, the collapse of Reconstruction, we had Jim Crow, we had legal segregation, disenfranchisement, we had lynching, we had racial terror, destruction of Black property and communities, housing discrimination, redlining, discriminatory lending, barriers to wealth building ….
the war on drugs, and mass incarceration."CHAOS ERUPTS AT NY REPARATIONS HEARING AS ‘FOUNDATIONAL’ BLACK AMERICANS CLASH WITH LEFT-LEANING GROUPSBlack New Yorkers demand cash reparations from the government as state officials work toward issuing some form of compensation for slavery or other past racial injustices.The U.S.
Freedmen Project, an organization representing self-identified "foundational Black Americans," works to educate the public on the distinctions between Black Americans who are direct descendants of enslaved persons in the U.S.and those who immigrated to the country voluntarily.According to its official website, the group is a nonpartisan organization seeking to fulfill the abandoned missions of the 19th-century Freedmen’s Bureau and the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company.
Supporters argue that broader reparations bills risk violating constitutional principles, contending instead that state and federal officials must base eligibility criteria strictly on lineage.The debate comes as several state and local governments explore reparations initiatives intended to compen...